Inspiration

I’m a horror movie fan, so when the new Insidious movie came out this weekend, I decided to do something I hadn’t done in a long time. I went to a movie theater. And I was genuinely excited. Not just interested or casually looking forward to it. I was excited like a little kid. I got my popcorn, found my seat, settled in, and for a moment, I realized just how much this simple experience meant to me…

As a full-time caregiver, it’s not that easy to slip away for a vacation or even slip out of the house for an hour or two but I have found I can take frequent breaks throughout the day to a lovely little inn on the Washington coast. Just a few quiet moments to smell the salty air and hear the seagulls arguing over who got the biggest crumb from a discarded…

When I think back to being a kid, so much of what we did was simply because it was fun. We spent hours outside, running up and down the road to the big black door at the back of William Patten School. Nobody actually used that entrance, but for us it became a focal point. Other days were spent dancing around the kitchen table, clicking our fingers to “The Jets”…

Feeling stuck after 60 was the last thing she expected on the afternoon she closed the biggest deal of her year. Everyone around her was celebrating, and she could not understand why she wanted to leave. The conference room erupted before she had finished closing her laptop. The client had said yes. After three months of negotiations, revised proposals…

A few months ago, I was feeling lethargic about my life. It seemed smaller, rather flat and far too predictable. I wondered whether this was simply what happened at 72. Perhaps life naturally slowed down, and I needed to accept it. But I didn’t want to accept it. Just because I may be three quarters of the way through my life does not mean I need to stop fully living it…

Are we living in the Age of Loneliness? In a 2023 81-page report from the Office of the Surgeon General, titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation,” the United States Surgeon General stated, “…we are now finding that one in two adults report measurable levels of loneliness.”

I always wished I had lived in 1920s Paris as part of the famous “Lost Generation,” where writers, artists, philosophers, and curious minds gathered to share ideas, challenge one another, and explore what it meant to be alive in a changing world.
These gatherings brought together luminaries like Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Matisse…

When asked to define the word dream, most people say that a dream is either the nocturnal experience when a person is asleep, or an aspiration or goal a person wants to achieve. There is little that can be done about the first definition, but the ability to reach a goal, to follow a dream, is not beyond our control…

When was the last time you romanced yourself? Engaging in self-romance can be beautifully rewarding as you enter your 60s and beyond. It offers a wealth of fulfilling and pleasurable experiences, providing you with a renewed sense of purpose, self-worth, and new levels of genuine happiness. Not surprisingly, self-romance directly affects the quality of your lifestyle…

To be perfectly honest, I am always on the lookout for challenges. Because of my history (and probably yours!), I feel ill-suited to placid times. I just know something terrible and unexpected is on the horizon. Somehow, the title of one of the very first crockpot…